Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
J. D. Hellen @jdhellenwrites.bsky.social 🖋️✨🐌 Speculative fiction writer near Philadelphia, PA, USA. Here to follow writers, lit mags, and podcasts. No AI slop, please.
https://linktr.ee/Jdhellen
C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction. Educator of neurodivergent teens. Husband. Father.
Dan O’Mahony @danoauthor.bsky.social I was raised in a library by a pack wild fantasy novels who brought me up as if I was one of their own.
Kilominator 🍁🚴♂️🇨🇦 @kilominator.bsky.social Father, husband, writer, cyclist. I have cycled over 93,000 km around Essex County, Ontario since May 2020. I have written about these adventures in my book The Kilominator: www.kilominator.com.
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Whisper House Press (Steve Capone, Jr.) @whisperhousepress.bsky.social Editor in Chief & Publisher, Whisper House Press.
Award-Winning Writer & Screenwriter.
Educator since ‘08.
Trained ethicist.
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Mike Zimmerman @zimwrites.bsky.social Writer editor storyteller. Always errs to the dark side. National Magazine Award finalist. More than 100 million people have read my stuff (yup, the math checks out). Find me at www.zimwrites.com.
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, company associate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social Person living in Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory. Winsome combo of giddy farm girl, smartass former punkette & intransigent pseudo-intellectual. Director of CMU Press. Love the show, Steve. Hello to Jason Isaacs. New novel soonish. Interwebs: suesorensen.net
Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social writer • editor Major 7th Mag • BETTER TO BEG out with House of Vlad
@thatnorwegianguy.bsky.social @thatnorwegianguy.bsky.social 🇳🇴🏳️🌈 Reader of books. Mainly horror and fantasy. But just a chill guy with some more discovering to do, in the forest of words. And watcher of movies ofc.
Z.B. Steele @zbsteele.bsky.social Grimdark author, all around hipster nerd, Catholic husband and father
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
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Michael Dolan @michaeldolan.bsky.social Author/Raconteur
Founder/Editorial Director of Winding Road Stories
Former CondeNast, AQ Mag
Boxer/bodybuilder
Cooking/art/fashion/music/books/travel
Matthew Zorich Author ⚔️🛡️⚔️🧷 @matthewzorich.bsky.social Author Bastards of Liberty & Maiden of Storms. Hoarder of books, & avid gamer. Writing Union of Steel - No AI /SPFBO9, (he,him)
https://www.raccooncountypress.com/
PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for our tumultuous times. Our aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. linktr.ee/pmpress
Sean Phillips @seanphillips.bsky.social Eisner Award winning comic book artist.
The CRIMINAL tv show is coming soon
to Amazon Prime Video
sean@seanphillips.co.uk
seanphillips.bigcartel.com
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Tim P Walker @timpwalker.bsky.social Noir Author, Baltimorean, Tarantino lookalike contest finalist
Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social Writer of tiny things. Fiction: NFFD, Mslexia, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Funny Pearls, Trash Cat Lit. Gags: Breaking The News, Noising Up, The Skewer, Newsjack. She/her
https://luciennecummings.com/
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucienne-cummings/
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social Husband to @philipchaffin.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈 Daddy to Gregory. 🐶 I run the record label PS Classics (@psclassics.bsky.social), co-host @thenoircollective.bsky.social and write about vintage film & TV. https://thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com
Carlotta Dale @carlottadale.bsky.social Still bravely using adverbs in Los Angeles
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
mark robinson @themarkrob.bsky.social UK Indie writer of horror, thrillers & speculative fiction. Not followed by anyone you’re following…
https://linktr.ee/The_mark_rob
Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social Eminent Hipster. @ruadanbooks.bsky.social Detective Novelist (Wade & Jacks series, THE BIG REWIND.) Beligerent Co-Host, @ostparty.bsky.social. Swing revival scholar @barrelhouse.bsky.social & your Crime Fiction Bimbo. www.libbycudmore.com
Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social My #Thriller, #TheHost is out https://a.co/d/eVkKTQ5% #AmWriting the #Guests (sequels) I am the #Editor of #BunkerSquirrel a #FlashFiction Magazine. More info: https://linktr.ee/tcwestminster
Richie Narvaez @richienarvaez.bsky.social Adjunct as well as Agatha- and Anthony-award–winning author of HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE | HOLLY HERNANDEZ & THE DEATH OF DISCO | NOIRYORICAN | 🇵🇷 | The songs I punched are dreaming
https://linktr.ee/richienarvaez
Grit Quarterly @gritquarterly.bsky.social The Journal of Grit Lit and Dirty Realism.
EIC: Dan Russell
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
Literary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social Writing with a serrated edge.
Like the rock and roll garage bands of the 1960’s and 1970's (as well as the modified versions that showed up in the 1980’s) – straight ahead story telling with a purpose.
www.literarygarage.com
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
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Dylan Ward @dylanwardwriter.bsky.social Deaf writer and librarian, reader for Story Magazine. Still figuring out this thing called Bluesky and just here to celebrate other writers and literary journals. 🏳️🌈 👨🏻💻 📚
Danielle M Cahill @daniellec.bsky.social Author | Reader
Burnt Offerings out now on Amazon (Alien Buddha Press).
Words all over, Virago Books, Quarter Press, MoonLit Getaway, Micromance Mag etc.
Winner Caledonia Novel Award 24, Bridport Prize shortlist 25, Pushcart Prize nominee 26.
Vicky Heath @doctor-dolittle.bsky.social Writer, Editor and Paddington Bear enthusiast. Pushcart Prize nominee. GICF First Time Funnies Class of '26. Posts about a few of my favourite things.
Writing: https://doctordolittle.substack.com/
G. Lynn Brown @glynnbrownwrites.bsky.social EIC: @MicromanceMagazine.bsky.social
Micromancemagazine.substack.com
Published poet and writer
Digital Illustrator
2x Pushcart Prize Nominee
Spillwords Socialite of the Year '24
#amwriting #romance 
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
@bsherm36.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social Author of HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE (Ad Hoc). Stories @Smokelong, Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres. Subs editor @Smokelong. BMF 2024, 2026. BSF 2025. Noms: Pushcart, BOTN. Author of five mystery novels. PhD from CUNY Grad Center.
NECKSNAP MAGAZINE @necksnapmag.bsky.social Issue Three: FRINGE 🦇 out now!
Horror lit mag with a love for Gothic haunts, body horror, strong experimental voices, and even stronger characters. EIC: johnhanleywrites.bsky.social
Support us: ko-fi.com/necksnapmag
Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social I used to write, read and live in Cairo, KL, Jakarta and Riyadh. Now I do all that in Lichfield while placating two Indonesian streetcats.
My novel 'Do Not Keep Silent' is available on Amazon.
anthonyaddis.co.uk
Raymond J. Brash @rjbrash.bsky.social 🇹🇹🇺🇲 ✍️📖
Crime/Spec/Lit
Stories published at BULL, Rock and a Hard Place, Shotgun Honey, and others
Raymondjbrash.work
Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social Your literary mixtape. EIC @keersteemack.bsky.social
Terrence McCauley @tmccauley.bsky.social Award-winning, bestselling writer of Thrillers, Crime Fiction and Westerns 
Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social notable, Best American Essays. distinguished, Best American Mystery and Suspense // books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM // editor of Bottle Rocket Literary Magazine
The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com The world's oldest mystery fiction specialty shop, located at 58 Warren Street, NYC. Home to Penzler Publishers and all its imprints, Mysterious Press, Scarlet, Crime Ink, and American Mystery Classics.
Voted USA Today's #1 Indie Bookshop 2025
Dan Russell @danrussell.bsky.social Proud Arkansan. Writer of novels and poems.
www.danrussellwrites.com
Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net Author of Mysteries (Edgar/Thriller/Derringer Nominee). Musician.
Member: MWA (Mystery Writers of America) & NZSA (Aotearoa)
Repped by High Spot Literary
Substack: Cinema555.com
Website: StephenRoss.net
Band: http://deviationengine.com/
Bristol Noir @bristolnoir.bsky.social Indie publisher of curiously dark fiction, poetry, noir and dirty realism.
#shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #noir #dirtyrealism
Magazine: http://bit.ly/BristolNoirMag / Submissions: http://bit.ly/BNoirSubs
J.M The Fiction Writer @mrclarkthewriter.bsky.social Writer, Avid Reader, Creator of Worlds
Just a guy on a mission to be the next great American writer. 📚💙 I have two self published Amazon Bestsellers under my belt. TRAD PUB… here I come.
Abigail Guerrero @gailguerrero.bsky.social Author and cat lady 🐈 / Mexican / ESL / aro-ace / she|her / BSFA awards nominee and finalist / First reader at Diabolical Plots and The Skull & Laurel / Short stories and poems here: beacons.ai/abigailguerrero
Michel Lee Garrett @michelleegarrett.bsky.social Author, editor, poet | Queer, trans, she/her | LGBTQ+ advocate | BOOKS: Born a Ramblin’ Man (Shotgun Honey), Transcendent Love (JKP Books) | Occasionally a pink cat named Princess | Opinions mine | leegarrett.net
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
Gavin Turner @gtwriter.bsky.social Literary speculative fiction writer exploring systems where reality, identity and consequence fail in consistent, human ways
Martha Lane @marthawrites.bsky.social Writer by the sea. Loves an animal tale. Novella, Lies Over The Ocean, available on Amazon. Stories all over the place... Really should start a substack!
SJ Townend @sjtownend.bsky.social A writer. A reader. A bit of a daydreamer.
Here for the horror.
SJTownend.com
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social Genre book reviews as pro wrestling.
trashmenace@gmail.com
https://trashmenace.blogspot.com/
Peter Bertlessen @peterbertlessen.bsky.social Lover of books and films, especially those in the genres of Transgressive Fiction, Western, Horror and Punk. A counterculture enthusiast who writes sometimes.
https://www.instagram.com/peterbertlessen?igsh=em5wM3lnZXJ4MDU2
Kelly Esparza Is Agented Again! @kellyesparza.bsky.social Mystery writer for adults & teens | poetry chapbook @bottlecappress | freelance editor | EIC: @flarelitmag.bsky.social 🔥| layout: Anahita Karthik | she/her | rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social @madwomanliterary.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kellyesparza
FLARE Magazine (SUBS OPEN) @flarelitmag.bsky.social Literary magazine about chronic illnesses, mental health, & disabilities written by disabled & chronically ill creatives
Send us your flares!
EIC: @kellyesparza.bsky.social
Issue 6 sub open 9/14-9/18b
https://linktr.ee/flare_magazine
Jamie Frevele @jamiefrevele.bsky.social Crime writer, both real (Law & Crime) and fiction. Previously: Mediaite, WWE, Marvel, UPROXX, Boing Boing, The Mary Sue. WIll not give in to the lies, will not give in to the fear. Come visit: http://badinfluencer.substack.com
Jenny @jennyhart2001.bsky.social Writes a bit, reads a bit. Wanders around a lot.
Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social Flash writer living in Derbyshire U.K.
Words in Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Sunlight Press, Bull Magazine, Phare Magazine, Hooghly Review, Gone Lawn and others. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee. No longer using X
Jude P @judepickledplum.bsky.social Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist, voluptuary. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
Alex (thebetterwithbooksclub) @alexherod.bsky.social Books, writing, horror, mental health.
Creative Writing PhD student (PT) & snr marketing manager (FT) at Salford Uni; counsellor.
Happy in water.
Manchester, UK.
She/Her
@thebetterwithbooksclub on t'other apps
https://linktr.ee/thebetterwithbooksclub
Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social Queer, shy and anxious. Pigeon-chested, takes frequent naps and seldom goes far. Writes tiny things. 2025: Exposition Review, Pangyrus, Flash the Court, Your Impossible Voice, Fictive Dream, Flash Flood, Winged Moon, Eunoia Review, Switch, Trash Cat Lit
Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social Uncomfortable, unfiltered pieces that aren’t afraid to investigate the underbelly of existence. Narratives exploring the overlooked, the mundane, the human.
https://linktr.ee/underbellypress
Tom Kellogg @tfkellogg.bsky.social Collector of SF, Horror and Crime fiction for 50+ years. Lucky enough to have attended the 1st WFC and World Horror Conventions. Always in need of more bookshelves. Practices multitasking by watching 5 televisions at once on NFLSundays.
Jo Clark @thejokelark.bsky.social writer, reader, linguist.
knitter, nomad, procrastinator.
MatGost @matgost.bsky.social 🏔️🔥🦉🌲☕️🥧
Author, Dreamweaver. Pushcart, Best of the Net, & Best Microfiction nominee. Twin Peaks Fan. He/him. Latest pubs in links:
https://linktr.ee/matgost
Sisters in Crime Los Angeles @sistersincrimela.bsky.social We're here to champion women writers and content creators in mystery, thriller and true-crime genres – and their fans. Join us https://www.sistersincrimela.com or subscribe https://sisters-in-crime-los-angeles.mailchimpsites.com/subscribe
Michael A. Gonzales @magonzales.bsky.social Born and raised in Harlem, Michael A. Gonzales has been anointed "the hip-hop Chester Himes" by Miles Marshall Lewis. He's published true-crime essays at CrimeReads, and short stories in Ellery Queen and Rock & a Hard Place.
--art by Tony Stella
Martin Boucher @authorfan.bsky.social Avid reader of #horror. 👀 Movie buff, especially of '80s #horror. 📺
Hark! The 87th Precinct Project @hark87podcast.bsky.social The only podcast IN THE WORLD dedicated to Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels, adaptations & spin-offs.
Plus music, film & social context - the 'project'. Posts by Paul Abbott.
https://pod.link/1179080344/
Steven Gomzi 📚📚📚 @stevengomzi.bsky.social Reader, cat butler, dog lover, and book collector. Fantasy, weird fiction, horror, comics, crime fiction and film. Husband, and father of two awesome kids. Can usually be found lost in a forest or lost in the stacks at some used bookstore.📚📚📚
Matthew Craig (Reader Dad) @readerdad.co.uk Books, movies and life in general. Lover of all things Stephen King, Star Wars, LEGO, Doctor Who, Foo Fighters. Reviews at https://readerdad.co.uk
Mark Burrow @markburrow.bsky.social Writer of Coo, a novella, published by Alien Buddha. Short stories in Frazzled Lit. Punk Noir. Underbelly. Urban Pigs. Roi Fainéant. Flight of the Dragonfly. AEOS Mag. The Selkie. Spinners. Pushcart & BotN noms. Brighton, UK https://linktr.ee/markburrow
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) out now.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
p.a. morbid @marcusagonistes.bsky.social Poet. Proser. Middlesbrough historian. Terraced house lover. Outsider artist/musician. Photographer etc
Andrew Rihn @andrewrihn.bsky.social Multi-genre boxing writer
Author of Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights
https://andrewrihn.my.canva.site/
Jeff Funk @jefffunk.bsky.social Surrealist. Storyteller, Songwriter & Music Publisher (ASCAP) http://jefffunk.com Author Midnight Reader http://amzn.to/2mJaEz3 | Editor @PulpBuzz
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Char’s Horror Corner @charshorror.bsky.social *Closed to new review requests.*
Life-long horror reader & sometime reviewer. Cat mom. Real mom. Lover of libraries. 📚💀🐈💳☮️
Despiser of the despicable orange turd.
READ HORROR! #horror #books #cats
On Threads & Insta: @charrlygirl
Ali Maria @alimariaart.bsky.social Writer and artist in training ☀️
Mum of a dog and a cat 💛
In love with @hctr.dev
Pulp Buzz ⚡ @pulpbuzz.bsky.social Buzz for modern & retro pulp! Hardboiled crime, mystery, LGBTQ-themed fiction—𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢—weird, occult & horror books! https://pulpbuzz.wordpress.com/
@jenlmonge.bsky.social @jenlmonge.bsky.social 
Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social 💀 INACTIVE PROFILE 💀
Visit http://instagram.com/weird_friction or https://x.com/Weird_Friction to see any and all new updates.
TerryShepherd.com @terryshepherd.com Purveyor of Adventure. Thriller guy. Award winning narrator. Author podcast host. Let’s talk!
David Hyman @davidhyman.bsky.social Reading, watching, doing... All views my own.